Important Dates
March 4 - No School - Teacher Inservice
March 5- Beginning of Trimester 3
March 12- Reading ISASP
March 21- ELA/Writing ISASP
March 26- Math ISASP
March 29- April 1- No School- Spring Break
April 9- Science ISASP
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- This week in math we’ve been working with ratios. Students learned about scaling up and scaling down to make equivalent ratios. We’ll continue this unit next week.
Math 5- In math this week we’ve been learning about multiplying fractions by fractions. Your student practiced doing this by making a model. We also learned how to do this by multiplying the numerators and denominators. We’ll continue to work on these skills next week.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In writing class, the students have been working on argumentative writing. The students were given information about 3 individuals that they would like to name our school after. After making their selection, they have been busy writing their argumentative claim focusing on three pieces of evidence, including reasoning on why that is important. The students are planning on continuing this into next week, and then we are planning a sharing day for our student writing samples to be heard.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We are in our first week of an historical fiction unit where students are reading novels in small groups. Daily skills focus on summarizing and participating in discussions. This week our lesson was on asking questions for deeper understanding of the text.
Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR book daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
This week is a little odd. As you might have heard, I’m retiring after this year. We have three teachers coming in to interview-teach on Tuesday. On W and Th, we will pilot an opening to a new unit being developed by OpenSciEd, a terrific group of academics and teachers who are committed to developing Open Source science curricula. I’ve been involved with them for a while because I appreciate their inquiry approach to science ed. After that, our next unit will look at daily and yearly patterns in Earth-Sun system.
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Mission US Simulation - fun “gamification” and puts a nice “bow” on the build-up to the Revolution
Where we are going: Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War
Questions/Prompts for your student: Why were Loyalists so loyal?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.
March 4 - No School - Teacher Inservice
March 5- Beginning of Trimester 3
March 12- Reading ISASP
March 21- ELA/Writing ISASP
March 26- Math ISASP
March 29- April 1- No School- Spring Break
April 9- Science ISASP
CLASSROOM NEWS
Math with Mrs. Halweg
Hybrid Math- This week in math we’ve been working with ratios. Students learned about scaling up and scaling down to make equivalent ratios. We’ll continue this unit next week.
Math 5- In math this week we’ve been learning about multiplying fractions by fractions. Your student practiced doing this by making a model. We also learned how to do this by multiplying the numerators and denominators. We’ll continue to work on these skills next week.
Language with Mr. Amundson
In writing class, the students have been working on argumentative writing. The students were given information about 3 individuals that they would like to name our school after. After making their selection, they have been busy writing their argumentative claim focusing on three pieces of evidence, including reasoning on why that is important. The students are planning on continuing this into next week, and then we are planning a sharing day for our student writing samples to be heard.
Reading with Mrs. Nowack
We are in our first week of an historical fiction unit where students are reading novels in small groups. Daily skills focus on summarizing and participating in discussions. This week our lesson was on asking questions for deeper understanding of the text.
Reminder: Students are expected to read from their IR book daily (it should travel from home to school each day).
Science with Mr. Peterson
This week is a little odd. As you might have heard, I’m retiring after this year. We have three teachers coming in to interview-teach on Tuesday. On W and Th, we will pilot an opening to a new unit being developed by OpenSciEd, a terrific group of academics and teachers who are committed to developing Open Source science curricula. I’ve been involved with them for a while because I appreciate their inquiry approach to science ed. After that, our next unit will look at daily and yearly patterns in Earth-Sun system.
Social Studies with Mr. Fromm
What we did: Mission US Simulation - fun “gamification” and puts a nice “bow” on the build-up to the Revolution
Where we are going: Declaration of Independence and Revolutionary War
Questions/Prompts for your student: Why were Loyalists so loyal?
Additional Information
Below is a Spanish copy of this newsletter as rendered by Google Translate.